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S in Ringtons, Tea in Heaton

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The imposing white brick Ringtons building on Algernon Road bears the date ‘1924’, indicating that the famous tea company has Heaton connections going back...

An exile remembers: Part 1 – the old house

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Heaton History Group is often contacted by people who used to live in the neighbourhood and have vivid and usually fond recollections. We love...

Songs of the Ouseburn

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On Wednesday 16 December, we are delighted to welcome well-known Tyneside Irish piper Joe Crane to present 'Songs of the Ouseburn'. This is how Joe...

Heaton Road Shops: then and now

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Our full-colour 32 page book takes you on a walk up Heaton Road, showing you what some of the shops used to look like, telling...

The signalman and his daughter

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Little did we think, when we published 'Dead Man's Handle', the story of a railway accident that took place almost ninety years ago, that...

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